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Bodas de sangre (Blook Wedding) depicts the story of a bride who, on her wedding night, runs away with her former lover, now a married man with a child of his own. The furious groom follows them, and a fight to the death ensues between the two men. Choreographed bvy Antonio Gades in 1974, this ballet is the essence of the work of Federico Garcia Lorca, a poet and playwright whose vision here melded with that of ancient Spain.

Filmed at the Teatro Real, Madrid, to mark the 75th anniversary of Gades'Read more birth.

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